Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-01
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss ALICE FREEMAN has presented
the Christian Woman's Exchange of
New Orleans with 3 set of views of
Wellesley College.
Mrs. MARY V. HOGAN is starting .
White Cross Home in Carrot, Ellis
County. Texas. She appeals to a gen.
erous public for help.
DIR. JENNIE McCowEN is superin-
tendent of the Social Purity Depart
ment of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union of Davenport, Ia.
You can not read history, unless you
read it upside down, without admitting
that women, cramped, fettered exc
cluded, degraded as she has been, has
yet sometimes, with one ray of her in
stinctive genius, done more to settle
great questions than all the cumbrous
intellect of the other sex has achieved.
Wendell Phillips.
Mrs. H. NJ. PLUNKETT, of Pittsfield,
wrote the admirable little volume,
women. Plumbers and Doctors" in
which the necessity of knowledge Of
sanitary science is set forth clearly and
well. Many of the women's clubs are
taking hold of household sanitation. 1t
is study particularly necessary to
every woman who has, or ever expects
to have. any supervision of a house.
FLORENCE NJ. Atkinson wrote
clever salutatory in the opening kzn-
Der of the Homan's News, edited by L.
May Wheeler and Nettie Ransford. in
indianapolis. Mrs. Atkinson says a
very hopeful indication Of the times is
that women are less disposed to go in
droves. The brightest and bravest
strike out into unbeaten paths. They
study the laws of supply and demand.
and seek to do the work the world
wants and is willing to pay for.
GRACE HOWARD writes from the
Crow Greek Mission. Dakota, that her
plans for the betterment of the indus
trial condition of the Indian women
are already well under way. She has
not gone West as teacher, as the
papers have reported. but her scheme.
which is an original one, is to open on
a small scale an establishment for the
cutting, fitting and manufacture of
clothing and other household articles,
which the Indians now beg from the
missionaries. or buy.
Mrs. CELIA W. WALLACE. of Chi
cago. is planning an industrial school
for boys in that city. Mrs. Wallace is
a rich and philanthropic woman, much
interested in the waits of the street
The institution is to be, in q measure,
reformatOry. but in no sense penal.
and no commitments will be made to
it from the courts. Homeless waits
of the class who drift into the courts
will be taken there. however, retained
by moral suasion. and given chance.
There will be nothing to prevent any
boy from going back to the street, if
he chooses, and this liberty will nat
urally sift out the hopelessly ircorrig-
ible, leaving in the school those best
worth saving from their unfortunate
surroundings.
Mrs. F. c. FLOYD has invented .
waterproof bonnet" manufactured
of rubber gossamer fabrics. for which
she has received patent in the United
States and has applications pending
in other countries. The material is
now manufactured in many fancy de-
signs and in every color, making per-
feet imitation of the bonnets and hats
now worn. Its great advantage is in
destructibility by rain. the terror of
ladies who wear valuable bonnets.
They will, therefore, welcome an
article impervious to moisture. and yet
handsome enough to be worn at
church. theater or elsewhere, either in
pleasant or stormy weather. 1t is not
heavy, and is very becoming.